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Book SynopsisMark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, rewriting southern Jewish history. A New Vision of Southern Jewish Historyfeatures essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article.
Trade ReviewBauman has, unlike nearly everyone else who has written in southern Jewish history, provided a scholarly perspective that goes beyond descriptive and, for lack of a better term 'cute' stories about the oddities of Jewish life."" - Hasia R. Diner, author of
We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962 and
The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by Ronald H. Bayor
- Introduction
- Part I. Community and Institution Building
- Chapter 1. Variations on the Mortara Case in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
- Chapter 2. Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces Facing the People of Many Communities: Atlanta Jews from the Leo Frank Case to the Great Depression
- Chapter 3. The Emergence of Jewish Social Service Agencies in Atlanta
- Chapter 4. The Transformation of Jewish Social Services in Atlanta, 1928–1948
- Chapter 5. Southern Jewish Women and Their Social Service Organizations
- Part II. Lay Leadership
- Chapter 6. Factionalism and Ethnic Politics in Atlanta: German Jews from the Civil War through the Progressive Era
- Chapter 7. Victor H. Kriegshaber: Community Builder
- Chapter 8. Role Theory and History: The Illustration of Ethnic Brokerage in the Atlanta Jewish Community in an Era of Transition and Conflict
- Chapter 9. The Youthful Musings of a Jewish Community Activist: Josephine Joel Heyman
- Part III. Rabbinical Leadership
- Chapter 10. Demographics, Anti-Rabbanism, and Freedom of Choice: The Origins and Principles of Reform at Baltimore’s Har Sinai Verein
- Chapter 11. The Rabbi as Ethnic Broker: The Case of David Marx. Cowritten with Arnold Shankman
- Chapter 12. Harry H. Epstein and the Adaptation of Second-Generation Eastern European Jews in Atlanta
- Part IV. International Leadership
- Chapter 13. Beyond the Parochial Image of Southern Jewry: Studies in National and International Leadership and Interactive Mechanisms
- Chapter 14. The Blaustein–Ben-Gurion Agreement: A Milestone in Israel-Diaspora Relations
- Part V. Historiography and Synthesis
- Chapter 15. The Southerner as American: Jewish Style
- Chapter 16. The Flowering of Interest in Southern Jewish History and Its Integration into Mainstream History
- Chapter 17. A Multithematic Approach to Southern Jewish History
- Chapter 18. A Century of Southern Jewish Historiography
- Notes
- Additional Readings
- Mark K. Bauman’s Publications on American Jewish History
- Index
